, 1887-02-15
DEATH N 4 ruRKIsn pAr4.
The London Case Not AiarminE-No Iso
lation Of Cause and Eject.

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LATHAM Of Cause and Eject.
The recent case of death in a Turkish
bath, really from excessive drinking. re-
ported by The London Daily News, was
rec ntly the text for a long article If
your Sunday edition, in which wcro
many reflections based more on %imagina-
ton than solid facts. There may be
danger in sleeping in n temperature of
100 deg, but it is iniinitessimal. Do
we hesitate to go to sleep because the
night is very hots By no means There
is, however, great danger in the habit of
excessive drinking, whatever the person
may do afterward, whether it be going
to the Turkish bath or to church, but the
bath would be the safest place to go at
that time. The habit of the bath is n
most laudable one, and is to be encour-
aged at all times, Us it tends to the wei
faro and betterment of the community
to elevate and not degrade man. 1t is on
the side of virtue and not of vice.
Because some may at times use it to
get relief from their excuses Is no more
the fault of the bath than is the fact that
people will sin during the week and go
to church on Sunday to get dissolution
the fault of the church. People are not
made weaker or debilitated by the bath.
On tlte contrary, they are made stronger
and moro vigorous, and more able to use
what strength they have. Disease and
bad habits most certainly weaken, but
the bath never. Let us look a little fur
ther, and not hastily say when a man
dies that the last thing he touched killed
him. There is too much reasoning from
the surface. Is the sun to be blamed for
bringing noxious air from undrained
swamps2 Ii one takes a Turkish bath
to-day and tomorrow is attacked with
rheumatism or other diseases, is that tho
fault of the bath? Emphatically mol II
it / u fact that the bath is weakening,
how il 1t that persons weakened and de-
hilitated by disease can take one or two
baths n day and rapidly recover
Again, how is it that the attendants
havo worked il the heat of the bath sew
eral hours daily for years and not lost n
day from sickness? A fact most promi-
nent in relation to these attendants is that
they invariably improve in health and
strength after commencing that kind of
work. Mr.. d.. Urquhart, to whom
modern civilization is indebted for the re
yival of the ancient ottoman, or Turkish
bath, as it is now called, states, in the
Manual of the Turkish Bath. " that the
best shampooing he ever received was
from u man 90 years old, who had been
a worker in the bath since he was 8 years
Of age. The frequent use of the Turkish
bath, instead of being killing, is enliven-
ing and helps to prolong life and increase
its vigor. A person who is given to ex-
cess in drink and who makes frequent
uso of tho Turkish bath is therefore more
likely to live longer than if he did not use
tho bath. The daily use Of the bath has
been found in many cases of great advan-
tagc to persons in ordinary health, By
that means they are fortified against dis
ease and their systems toned up and in
vigoratcd. Death has come to man in
the pulpit. on the ferryboat, at the table.
Ia it at all wonderful that it should come
20 Il while in the bath, when he has
taken the surest course, by dissipation, to
bring that condition about Rest assured
tho hath. in and of itself, is not the thing
10 hasten that time. Charles II. Shep-
ard, NJ. D., in Brooklyn Eagle.